Bunker Sentence Examples

The famous Bunker Hill and Sullivan mines were wrecked, late in April, by union men.

After the battle of Bunker Hill, Gage was superseded by General (Sir William) Howe, and returned to England.

Finally came war, with Lexington and Bunker Hill, and beleaguerinent by the colonial army; until on the 17th of March 1776 the British were compelled by Washington to evacuate the city.

There is a considerable trade in bunker and export coal at Durban, the coal bunkered having increased from 118,740 tons in 1900 to 710,777 in 1908.

While we were in Boston we visited Bunker Hill, and there I had my first lesson in history.

His grandfather was Colonel William Prescott (1726-1795), who commanded at the battle of Bunker Hill; and his father was a well-known lawyer.

In 1875 he attended the Bunker Hill centenary at Boston, Mass., and delivered a remarkable address.

In America Rawdon served at the battles of Bunker Hill, Brooklyn, White Plains, Monmouth and Camden, at the attacks on Forts Washington and Clinton, and at the siege of Charleston.

The battle of Bunker Hill had already taken place, news of it reaching him on the way north.

Sites on the 2.5-mile trail include Boston Common, the Park Street Church and the Bunker Hill Monument.

Founded by Puritans in 1630, it has been home to some of the country's most famous events such as the Boston Tea Party, the Boston Massacre, and the Battle of Bunker Hill.

The Freedom Trail Walk the Freedom Trail and learn all about Boston's rich Revolutionary history, which includes the ride of Paul Revere, the Battle of Bunker Hill and the Boston Tea Party.

First is the Bunker Hill Monument, which sits atop Breed's Hill to commemorate the first major battle of the Revolutionary War.

Start at Boston Common and see a statue of Benjamin Franklin, the Paul Revere House, the historic Bunker Hill battlefield and the site of the Boston Massacre.

His oration in 1825 at the laying of the corner stone of the Bunker Hill monument contained perhaps the clearest statement to be found anywhere of the principles underlying the American War of Independence.

In June 1843, on the occasion of the completion of the Bunker Hill monument, Webster delivered another classic oration.

For several months early in the War of Inde - pendence the Committees of Safety and Correspondence made Watertown their headquarters and it was from here that General Joseph Warren set out for Bunker Hill.

At the beginning of the War of Independence he raised a regiment and as colonel did good service in the Battle of Bunker Hill, in the Canadian expedition, and in Washington's New Jersey campaign in the winter of 1776-77.

Long jetties spring out on either side of the entrance, curving round about midway in order to run parallel to the river, thus forming a huge funnelshaped entrance; the eastern jetty forms a landing-stage for passenger traffic and the western is designed for the shipment of bunker and cargo coal.

An attempt of the provincials to seize and hold a commanding hill in Charlestown brought on the battle of Bunker Hill (June 1 7, 1775), in which the provincials were driven from the ground, although they lost much less heavily than the royal troops.

Rule Vi I I.-Expenses Of Lightening A Ship When Ashore, And Consequent Damage When a ship is ashore, and, in order to float her, cargo, bunker coals and ship's stores, or any of them, are discharged, the extra cost of lightening, lighter hire, and reshipping (if incurred), and the loss or damage sustained thereby, shall be admitted as G.A.

He had read much of tactics and strategy, joined the American army at the outbreak of the War of Independence, and fought at Bunker Hill, planned the defences of the camps of the army before Boston, and brought from Lake George and border forts much-needed artillery.

Quincy granite, a hornblende, pyroxene, bluish or greyish, without mica, was used for the construction of the Bunker Hill monument at Charlestown (in 1826), and of King's Chapel, Boston; and for interior decorations it has found some use, for example in the Philadelphia city buildings.